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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Opinion

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Bush must talk sense to GOP on immigration

By MORTON KONDRACKE Thursday, January 12, 2006 9:26 AM CST

Much as he reached out last week to former secretaries of State and Defense on Iraq policy, President Bush should call in his radio talk-show supporters for a frank chat about immigration.

Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Hugh Hewitt and Laura Ingraham certainly aren't as distinguished as ex-Secretaries James Baker, Madeleine Albright and Robert McNamara, but they are the ones fueling Republican uproar over illegal immigration.

Yet they support Bush ardently and they ought to be open to an argument from him â€â€